Month-end accounts
- Wait for the accountant
- Read one profit figure
- Guess what changed
A great sales month can still lose money if chicken went up, waste crept in and the rent rose. By the time the accounts say so, the next month is half gone.
Tahlib Intelligence · Kuwait & GCC
Restaurant Profit Intelligence for Owners and Investors
Sales are easy to see. Profit is not. Tahlib Intelligence turns the orders, stock, hours and expenses already in Tahlib into an operating P&L, explains why profit moved, and points at the money leaking out — every number calculated by Tahlib, none of it guessed.
- An operating P&L from net revenue down to operating profit
- An exact bridge of why profit changed against the previous period
- Payback on the capital you put in, from the profit you actually made
The operating result for last month, and what is leaking.
More than a sales report
From “we were busy” to “we made money”
Most owners learn their profit from an accountant, weeks after the month closed — one number, too late to act on, with no way to see what moved it.
Tahlib Intelligence
- Orders
- Food cost
- Labour
- Expenses
- Operating profit
- Why it changed
- Where it leaks
The figures come from records Tahlib already holds — every order, every stock movement, every clocked hour, every expense — so the operating result is ready whenever you look, for today, this month or the last ninety days.
Your accountant still files the accounts. You stop waiting for them to find out how the month went.
How it works
From the records you keep to the decision you make
Nothing new to type for the core numbers. The more of Tahlib you use, the more of the P&L is filled in.
Sales come in by themselves
Every order from the till and the QR menu feeds net revenue — gross sales, with voided bills left out (Kuwait has no VAT to take out).
Costs come from the modules that hold them
Food cost from Inventory, labour from Workforce clock-ins and hourly rates, operating expenses from Expenses & P&L. A cost line Tahlib cannot fill is labelled, never shown as zero.
Pick a period
Today, yesterday, this week, this month, last month, the last 30 or 90 days — in your restaurant’s own timezone. A period still in progress is compared like-for-like against the same number of days before it.
Read the operating result
The waterfall from net revenue to operating profit, with margin, break-even revenue and your margin of safety.
See why profit moved
The bridge splits the change into sales volume and mix, discounting, ingredient cost, waste, labour and expenses — and the parts add up exactly to the change.
Work the leaks
Eight checks run over the period. Each finding carries an amount and a status you move from open to acknowledged to resolved or dismissed.
Try a change before you make it
Model a price rise, a change in sales volume, a supplier increase or more or fewer hours, and see the effect on a month’s profit.
Every figure is computed by Tahlib’s own code from your own records. There is no AI in the numbers.
Why profit changed
The bridge adds up to the change, exactly
Operating profit fell KWD 725 against the previous period. These are the parts — what helped, what hurt, and nothing left unexplained.
What you get
The numbers an owner actually asks for
Grouped by the question each one answers.
Did we make money?
The operating result, line by line.
- Net revenue − food cost − labour − operating expenses = operating profit
- Revenue split by order source and by service mode, with orders and average order value
- Food cost with waste and waste share; stock-count variance shown as a signal
- Labour hours and revenue per labour hour
- Expenses already counted elsewhere in the waterfall are excluded, so nothing is counted twice
Why did profit change?
An exact explanation, not a chart to squint at.
- Profit bridge against the previous period, sorted by size
- Drivers: sales volume and mix, discounting, ingredient cost, waste, labour, expenses
- Anything that cannot be attributed is shown as “other”, never spread across the rest
- The bridge reconciles to the change in operating profit to the fil
How much do we need to sell?
Break-even from your own cost structure.
- Break-even revenue and margin of safety for the period
- Fixed and variable share per cost category, editable in settings
- Shown as unavailable rather than invented when the contribution margin is zero or negative
When do I get my money back?
For owners and investors who put capital in.
- A capital ledger: money in, money out, owner distributions and corrections
- Capital recovered, still to recover and operating return
- Estimated payback from the average profit of the last three traded months
- No estimate when there is too little history or the business is not profitable — it says why
What would happen if…?
Four scenarios, each normalised to a month.
- Menu price change — on everything, a category or one item, with an optional volume effect
- Sales volume up or down
- An ingredient’s cost changing
- Weekly labour hours, with an optional new hourly cost
Profit leaks
Eight checks, and no double-counting
A leak is money the business is losing that it does not have to. Each check looks for one kind, puts an amount on it and tells you what it needed to run.
What it looks for
Ingredient costs rising, waste rising, labour over target, discounting creeping up, cash short at close, a high void rate, low-margin best sellers and stock-count shortfalls.
One problem, counted once
Checks that measure the same money are grouped, and only the largest counts toward the headline figure. The others stay visible as additional risks, with their amounts — but they are never added on top.
Losses and opportunities kept apart
A dish priced below its margin target is money left on the table, not money lost. It is shown as an opportunity, outside the leakage total.
Honest about what it could not check
If a check needs Inventory, Workforce or Cashup and you do not use it, the finding is listed as not checked, with the reason — not silently reported as clean.
Connected operations
Where each line of the P&L comes from
Intelligence reads what the rest of Tahlib records. Each product you use fills in another part of the picture; whatever is missing is labelled, not guessed.
- Orders
- Inventory
- Workforce
- Expenses
- Intelligence
Orders
Every order from the till and the QR menu is the revenue line — the same definition the Expenses & P&L page uses.
Inventory
Recipe-linked stock movements, waste and counts supply food cost, the waste and ingredient-cost checks, and the stock-count check.
Workforce
Closed clock-ins and hourly rates supply labour cost and the labour-over-target check.
Expenses & P&L
Rent, utilities and every other recorded expense, by category — the operating-expenses line.
Daily Cashup
Signed closes feed the cash-short check, so a drawer that keeps coming up light shows as money lost.
Menu Engineering
Ranks dishes by how often they sell and what they bring in — the same menu the low-margin check reads.
Products are switched on individually, each priced per branch. View all products
Where it fits
Who reads it, and what for
Same numbers, different question.
- Owner-operators
- You run the floor and do the books at night. The operating result and the leak list are the ten minutes of finance that change what you do tomorrow.
- Investors and partners
- Capital recovered, operating return and estimated payback, from the restaurant’s real profit — not a projection made before it opened.
- General managers
- Labour against target, waste against target, discounting against target. The checks that measure what a manager controls.
- Owners planning a price change
- Model the increase on one category, with the volume you are prepared to lose, and see a month’s profit before the menu is reprinted.
Built here
The details that matter for a Kuwaiti restaurant
Built around how restaurants here earn and spend.
Revenue that means revenue
Net revenue is gross sales with voided bills left out, and every margin divides by it. If Kuwait introduces VAT, it is taken out first, so it never flatters your profit.
Ramadan and the summer dip
A month still in progress is compared against the same number of days before it, so the first week of Ramadan is not judged against a whole ordinary month.
English and Arabic
Every Intelligence screen is available in English and Arabic, with proper right-to-left layout, for partners who think in either.
Getting started
How to get Tahlib Intelligence
Priced per branch and switched on from your dashboard — no call, no setup fee.
Start with Tahlib Core for free. Add modules one by one or save with a suite — monthly, or yearly for less. Cancel anytime.
Questions, answered
What owners ask before they trust the numbers
Where do the numbers come from?
From records already in Tahlib: orders for revenue, Inventory for food cost, Workforce clock-ins for labour, Expenses & P&L for operating expenses, and Cashup for cash variance. Every figure is calculated by Tahlib’s own code — nothing is estimated by AI.
Do I need Inventory and Workforce for it to be useful?
No, but each one fills in a part of the P&L. Without Inventory there is no food cost line; without Workforce there is no labour line. Tahlib labels a missing line as not available and treats operating profit as an upper bound, rather than pretending the cost is zero.
Is this my accounting?
No. It is an operating view of the business for decisions, built from your operational records. It is not audited accounts, and your accountant still prepares the statutory figures.
How is profit-leak money calculated?
Each of the eight checks measures one kind of loss against your own previous period or a target — ingredient cost rises, waste, labour, discounting, cash shortages, voids, low-margin dishes and stock-count shortfalls. Checks that measure the same money are grouped and only the largest counts, so the total is never inflated.
How does it work out payback?
You record the capital you put in and the money you take out. Payback divides the capital still to recover by the average operating profit of the last three traded months. With fewer than three months of trading, or no profit yet, it shows no estimate and says why.
Does it forecast next month?
No. Payback is a run-rate estimate from real results, and scenarios show the effect of a change you describe. Forecasting demand is not part of the product today.
What is Ask Tahlib?
An optional conversational analyst that answers questions about your figures using the same calculations the screens use. It is switched off by default; when it is on, it never sees customer names or phone numbers, and an answer containing a figure the calculations did not produce is discarded.
Can I choose any date range?
The screens offer today, yesterday, this week, this month, last month and the last 30 or 90 days. A free-form custom range is not in the picker yet.
What does it cost?
It is priced per branch, monthly or yearly for less, with a free trial — switched on and off from your dashboard. From the second branch each branch costs less; the pricing section above shows both figures.
Find out how the month went before it ends
Switch it on, and the operating result, the bridge and the leak list are built from the records you already keep.
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